The lender tells me the actual closing costs should only be about $350-$400.Do Fannie/Freddie underwriting guidelines always come into play unless using a portfolio lender or private money?

How to calculate that is easy, I wrote an article about it, tweak the formula as necessary...http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/01/19/real-estate-math/After that, just make sure you know the exact condition of the properties, using a home inspector, so you don't end up with unexpected repair expenses.

Nothing wrong with using a professional business name, but are people searching for your specific business name or on something like "sell my house fast".Domains are cheap, reserve your company name (so no one else does) and keyword rich domain names.There is a lot more to SEO than my esoteric answer...

this topic was discussed at length today on the BiggerPockets Blog - Check it out ----> Private Placement Memorandum: Using a PPM to Raise Private Capital Hope that helps!

At the end of the day, it seems more of an issue with the title company not doing their underwriting job properly and I will be using a different company next time.Thank you everyone for your suggestions and advice!

I like to think big :)At the moment we are using a ticketing system at work called RT which is open sourced but only is supported on Linux.

Consider using a 1031 exchange to avoid taxes.

I think I might go the route of using a local bakery that I like a lot and filling the tins up myself so the total cost would be $5 for the tin and maybe $9-10 bucks in cookies + shipping or delivery.

I don't recommend using a big company like Terminix.

., If you plan on using a developer to do something custom and avoid the learning curve, I'd say $200 - $300 would be fair.